How To Install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu

RabbitMQ is a widely used open-source message broker written in the Erlang programming language. As a message-oriented middleware, RabbitMQ can be used to implement the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) on all modern operating systems.

This article explains how to install RabbitMQ on a Vultr Ubuntu 16.04 server instance.

Step 4: Start the Server

By default RabbitMQ creates a user named "guest" with password "guest”. You can also create your own administrator account on RabbitMQ server using following commands. Change password to your own password.

Next, you need to setup an administrator user account for accessing the RabbitMQ server management console. In the following commands, "mqadmin" is the administrator's username, "mqadminpassword" is the password. Remember to replace them with your own.